Commentary on over diagnosis

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AIO? My classmate reported me to the DEI office because I said I was “exhausted” during a group project and she claimed it was ableist 

I am in a 4-person group project for my sociology class. Last Tuesday during our meeting I said “guys I’m exhausted, can we wrap this up?”

My classmate J went quiet immediately. The next day I got an email from the DEI office saying a complaint was filed against me for “ableist language” because apparently the word exhausted can be harmful to people with chronic fatigue conditions.

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Will Flanders:

Decades of over diagnosis with mental disorders, safe spaces and DEI at universities has led us to a place where college students can’t even use the word “exhausted” without fear of retribution from the DEI bureaucracy.


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